This year's National Day, September 2, falls on a weekend, so workers get four consecutive days off, from September 9 to 4. With such a long holiday, people's travel and leisure needs also increase, pushing up airfares from major cities to destinations. Travel up to one and a half times, even twice as high as usual.
According to the survey of VTC News on July 30 on websites and online ticket sales systems of airlines, round trip tickets for Hanoi - Da Nang route, departing on September 7-1, returning on September 2 of Vietnam Airlines from 9 - 5 ,9 million dong. With this airline, if you go or leave earlier than 3,8-4,6 days before the holiday, the ticket price is only from 2 to 3 million VND including taxes and fees.
Round-trip tickets of Vietnam Airlines from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang go from September 1 to September 2, and on September 9, the price ranges from 5 to 9 million VND, while Vietjet costs from 3,2 to 4,1, 2,8 million dong; while the return ticket on weekdays is only from 4,2 to 2,1 million dong, including taxes and fees.
With other flight routes from Hanoi to tourist destinations such as Da Lat, Hue, Nha Trang, Da Nang... on the occasion of National Day, the lowest Bamboo Airways ticket price is also from 3,7 million VND or more including Taxes, fees, of Vietnam Airlines from 4,2 million VND or more. The cheapest of these flight routes belongs to VietJet Air, but also from 3,2 million VND/ticket. This price is also double the normal day.
Similar to round-trip tickets with flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Hue, Da Nang, Nha Trang ... the airfare on the National Day holiday is also from 3,2 million VND or more, while a normal day is only about 2,2 USD. XNUMX million dong.
Even with the tourist destinations chosen by many people when taking a long vacation, many convenient flights have sold out of economy tickets, only high-priced business tickets are left.
It is worth mentioning that while domestic airfares increase daily, international airfares to countries in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, etc., on the occasion of September 2, are quite cheap.
Theo Law of Vietnam, many "affordable" flight routes for customers such as Hanoi - Singapore direct flight of Vietnam Airlines costs more than 6 million VND, Hanoi - Bangkok direct flight of Vietjet Air costs 3,8 million VND/ticket. If passengers want to fly Hanoi - Bangkok, Vietnam Airlines' flight costs more than 5 million VND/ticket.
Previously, on the holiday of April 30 - May 4, the situation of domestic airfares initially increased and then suddenly dropped sharply, causing a reaction in public opinion.
Exchange with Tien Phong Regarding solutions to avoid situations such as ticket prices on the last holiday of April 30 - May 4, a leader of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam knows that they will strengthen inspection and supervision of ticket prices and the supply of air tickets of airlines. company on the occasion of the upcoming National Day holiday, September 1. However, according to this position, airlines operating in accordance with the law can set their own selling prices for air tickets, but the maximum can only be equal to the ceiling price issued by the Ministry of Transport.
"Close to the peak holiday season, if the booking rate for flights is high, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam will ask airlines to increase flights to meet people's travel needs," the leader of the Civil Aviation Administration said.
With train tickets, the Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) said that the railway has officially opened ticket sales throughout the system during the National Day holiday on September 2 this year. Specifically, the route Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City opens to sell all 9 pairs of Thong Nhat trains, the route Hanoi/HCMC - Da Nang opens to sell tickets for 4 pairs of trains. Other local trains were also opened to sell tickets at the same time; such as Hanoi to Lao Cai, Hai Phong, Quang Binh and vice versa; Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang, Phan Thiet and vice versa…
Besides, on the occasion of National Day this year, the railway continues to apply a promotion policy to reduce ticket prices (discount 5% of the ticket price per turn for customers who order round-trip train tickets; a 7% reduction in ticket prices for each turn for passengers who go on a trip). groups of 20 people or more). In addition, social policy groups are still entitled to discount train tickets on this holiday such as people with meritorious services to the revolution, the elderly, people with disabilities, children, students, etc.
A representative of VNR said that it has reserved a plan to increase train operation and add more cars if customers book tickets to increase in the coming National Day holiday.
Minh Hoa (th)
